Germany category: 4580 books
by Terence A.Smart
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
“After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from
the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived.” – John F.
Kennedy
We are all familiar with the story of Adolf Hitler that the United States,...
Musterkolonie Kiatschou
The Expansion of the German Empire into China
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject History Europe - Germany - 1848, Empire, Imperialism, grade: 1-, The American Central University (Department of History), course: Empire in Comparative History, language: English, abstract: On November 14, 1897, German marines seized the bay of Kiautshou,...
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Points of Contact, 1250-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations....
by Heinrich Von Treitschke
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Heinrich Von Treitschke was a prolific German historian and political writer during the nineteenth century. In Germany, France, Russia and Islam, first published in 1915,he considers European diplomatic relations from the patriotic perspective of imperial Germany, in particular examining Germany’s...
Bismarck and Germany
1862-1890
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Bismarck’s role in the unification and consolidation of Germany is central to any understanding of Germany's development as a nation and its consequent role as aggressor in two world wars.
This study provides students with a concise, up-to-date and analytical account of Bismarck's role in...
Germany? Germany!
Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920's Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller;...
“Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly”
A Report on the Collapse of Hitler’s “Thousand Years”
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
THIS IS the story of the search for “Faceless Fritz”—the most difficult and frightening camera-hunt ever undertaken by ace photographer-reporter Margaret Bourke-White. “Fearless Fritz” was cable shorthand for one of several LIFE assignments that brought Miss Bourke-White and her camera to...
The Sins of the Fathers
Germany, Memory, Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over—the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could...
Black Forest Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)
Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Enjoy your trip to Germany with the Black Forest Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun.
The Quick Trips to Germany Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination...
Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany
A Comparative Study from 1800 to 1932
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Focusing on the era in which the modern idea of nationalism emerged as a way of establishing the preferred political, cultural, and social order for society, this book demonstrates that across different European societies the most important constituent of nationalism has been a specific understanding...
Germany's African Slaves
The untold story of African refugees in a hostile climate
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
In a fascinating look at a vast movement of people from Africa to Germany over the second half of the 20th century, journalist Kwaku A. Poku documents these trends on a very personal level. An African refugee himself, he reports from "the inside" with access to people who came to Germany...
The Weimar Century
German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
The Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post–World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Blending intellectual, political, and international histories, Udi Greenberg shows that the foundations...
Holocaust and Catholic Conscience, The
Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1994
American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust, Jews, and Judaism between 1946 and 1959. He was arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and...
The Shortest History of Germany
From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel—A Retelling for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
2,000 years of history in one riveting afternoon
A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871—yet today, Germany is the world’s...